Switch-track for hay and other similar carriers.



I W51". JACOBS. SWITCH TRACK POR HAY AND OTHER SIMILAR CARRIERS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY s', 1909.

. Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 41909. 981,273, Patented Jan. 10,1911.

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WILLIAM F. JACOBS, OF OTTAVJA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR '110v J'. E. PORTER COMPANY, l OEV C'ITAINA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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Application filed July 6, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lViLLiAM F. Jficoizs, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ottawa, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvement in Switch-Tracks for Hay and other Similar Carriers, of which the following isa specification.

rlliis invention is a switch mechanism for hay carrier, litter carrier and feed carrier tracks, and may be used for effecting transfers. with either two or three tracks.

My endeavor in the invention has been to simplify the mechanism much as possible and to provide it with means whereby'it may be locked after being adjusted in its desired position, and also with means wherebv the ends of the track or tracks which are nbt in use may be guarded so as to make it impossible for a carrier to run otl' at the open end. The throwing ofthe switch blocks all of the tracks except the one with which connection is effected. The construction by which I obtain these results is fully described in the subjoined description, and it is also illustrated inthe accompanying draw ing in wliichw Figure l. is a plan of the terminals of the number of tracks employing my switch; Fig. 2 is a section 'on the line 2v2 of F ig. l; Fig. 3 is a section on the line of Fig l; Fig. l is a transverse vertical section enlarged; and Fig. 5 is a bottom plan ofthe retaining cap mounted on the movable switch section.

In said drawing 6, 7 and 8 are the terminals of different tracks and 9 is a single track adapted to be connected to either of the tracks (i, 7 or 8 by a movable switch section l0. The three tracks (3, 7 and S are provided with a guide plate ll. secured over them to a beam 12 of the building in which the tracks are located by bolts 123, 18. This plate is slightly curved at its forward odge so that the movable section of the switch may always be at the proper distance from it. And along` this edge I provide a vertical rib 14 provided with iiot-ches l5 as shown. At its ends this guide plate ll is provided with eyes for the passage of the rope 16 for operating the switch, the ends of the rope hanging down within easy reach of an ate tendant. Each stationary track terminal is supported by a hanger 17 secured to said guide plate ll by bolts 18. These hangers Specification of Lettersatent.

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grasp the head of the rails as plainly seen at` Fig. 8, and upon the side toward the movable switch each of them is provided vith a swinging safety device or bumper 19 pivoted to them at Q0 and made T-sliaped atI the bottom so that the limbs of the T will extend out upon both sides of the hanger and in position where they will arrest the carrier in case it should accidentally be allowed tor approach the end of the track. This will be understood particularly from Fig. 3.

The movable switch section carries an upright standard 21 which also fits the rail in the same manner as do the hangers 1.7, and upon thisv standard is mounted a cap 22 having a flange 23. extending over and down upon'V the inside of the verticalrib 14 on the guide plate. In the center of the ca is a vertical recess in which I place a meta ball 24 and a spring 25 pressing the ball downward. This ball is located over and rides along the vertical rib 14, and is adapted to gravitate into the notches l5 therein, whenever the movable section is shifted from one terminal to another. lli/Then it has entered one of these notches the springholds it therein with. a yielding' pressure and enables it to lock the movable switch section to one of the terminals (S, 7 or 8, the notches being located opposite such terminals. The lock thus effected is sufficient to prevent unintentional misplacing of the switch or its escape from adjusted positions, but the ball can be forced out of the locking notches by the rope 16 already mentioned, such rope being for this purpose secured in the eye 2G of the cap. This rope also serves as a means for shifting the switch, as will be understood, and when it has been shifted the ball automatically locks it in the changed position.

The standard 2l is provided with a horizontally extending projection 27 and when the movable section is shifted this projection encounters the safety bumpers 19 and lifts them from their normal positions retaining tlie bumper of the track with which the connection is made in its raised position as seen in the case of the bumper of track No. 7, in Fig. 3. The track 6, 7 or 8 which is connected with the movable switch section is by this operation of the bumper left free for the passage of the carrier, as will be understood, while with the other terrio lni'nals the bumpers will be in their acting tical recess and adapted to enter the notches positions and block their respective tracks. in said way.

The movable section 10 is pivoted to the 2 track 9 by a hinge connection shown particularly at Figs. 1 and 2, and consisting of a hanger 28, supported by a ring 29 from the beam 30, and having ears 31 and 32 supporting a pivot passing through the socket member 33 attached to the track section 10. The hanger 28 is attached to the track 9 as will be understood.

|The upright standard 21 is in reality a hanger in as much as the cap 22 extends over the vertical rib 14 and the ball 24 rides upon said rib at all times so that the movable end of the switch section 10 is supported from said plate 11.

I claim 1. The combination of a plurality of carrier track terminals, with a movable track section adapted to connect with said terminals, a suspended plate to which the hangers of the terminals are bolted, having a notched Way 14 formed upon it, and a hanger supporting said movable sect-ion from said plate and traveling on said notched way and provided with a gravitating spring depressed ball conned in a ver- 2. The combination of a plurality of carrier track terminals, with a movable track section adapted to connect with said terminals, a suspended plate to which the hangers of the terminals are bolted, laterally swinging safety bumpers attached to said hangers and adapted to block the open terminals, and a hanger supporting said movable section Jfrom said plate and movable along the same, said last mentioned hanger being adapted to swing said bumpers laterally to the open position.

8. The combination in a switch and with the movable section thereof, of a notched Way -14 along which the movable section moves, a ball carried by the swinging sec tion and riding on said notched way, and a spring conned in the swinging section and bearing on said ball, said ball entering the notches in the way 14 and locking the movable section.

-WILLIAM F. JACOBS.V

l/Vitnesses:

E. J. CAssIDY, ARTHUR A. GEBDING. 

